On Friday, 17 March 2006 18:00, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> On March 17, 2006 05:14, Paul wrote:
> > > Me I'm not interested in financially supporting just another Distro
> > > vendor along the lines of RH and Novell.
> >
> > I think I am going to testdrive Ubuntu and OpenSuse on a spare disk...
> >
> > Paul
>
> I gave Kubuntu (I'm a KDE kinda guy) 5.10 a try before PCLinuxOS, and
> wasn't impressed:
<snip>
> But don't let me dissuade you from anything. Ubuntu 6.04 should be out
> soon, and perhaps will address some of these problems. I'd be particularly
> interested in hearing your experience with OpenSuse. I watched their xgl
> demo video (http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/), and it's pretty cool.
I (or should I say my employers) have had a mail/proxy server running on
OpenSUSe 10.1 pre-whatever since last November and it has not given any
trouble.at all, except for YAST mangling my Apache/Squirrelmail setup.
Everything works smoothly, and it is pretty easy to install. I don't like the
way SUSe puts certain configuration files in odd places. Perhaps it's just
that I am used to a certain way of doing things. Anyway, it works well,
although it is not my first choice as a desktop distribution.
Ubuntu is very much like its progenitor, Debian, with more of an emphasis on
Desktop use, of course. (It can be used as a server, just type "server" when
you boot the install cd), but, like Debian, I don't care for its lack of a
unifying configuration tool along the lines of MCC (drakconf). I suppose you
could say that Webmin is a useful tool. Having said that, I can say that
Ubuntu is a very competently designed distribution, especially for newbies,
but I don't think it is quite as user-friendly as PC-LinuxOS or Mandr*.
cheers
Duncan
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